Ice Age hunters’ leftovers may have fueled dog domestication
Ancient people tamed wolves by feeding them surplus game, researchers suggest
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Saddled with more lean meat than they could safely consume, ancient northern Eurasian hunter-gatherers may have fed some of it to wolves in the first step toward dog domestication, researchers propose.
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